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Trump: Tech Companies Must Build Own Power Plants Under New Pledge

Donald Trump · Bombshell: Fed Report Says Most Firms See No AI Impact · Feb 25, 2026 · at 19:13

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During his State of the Union address, Donald Trump outlines his policy on AI data center energy consumption and electricity prices.

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“We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs. They can build their own power plants as part of their. Factory so that no one's prices will go up and in many cases prices of electricity will go down for the community and very substantially down.”

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